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Wireless Settings

Click

Wireless Connection Setup Wizard

to begin. Skip to page 82.

If you want to add your wireless clients to your router using WPS, click

Add Wireless

Device with WPS

and skip to page 75.

If you want to configure your wireless settings manually, click

Manual Wireless

Connection Setup

and skip to the next page.

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802.11n/g (2.4GHz)

Check the box to enable the wireless function. If you do not want to use wireless, uncheck

the box to disable all the wireless functions.

Select the time frame that you would like your wireless network enabled. The schedule

may be set to Always. Any schedule you create will be available in the drop-down menu.

Click Add New to create a new schedule.

Service Set Identifier (SSID) is the name of your wireless network. Create a name using

up to 32 characters. The SSID is case-sensitive.

Select one of the following:

802.11g Only

- Select if all of your wireless clients are 802.11g.

Mixed 802.11n and 802.11g

- Select if you are using both 802.11n and 802.11g wireless

clients.

802.11n Only

- Select only if all of your wireless clients are 802.11n.

The Auto Channel Scan setting can be selected to allow the DIR-857 to choose the channel with the least amount of interference.

Indicates the channel setting for the DIR-857. By default the channel is set to 6. The Channel can be changed to fit the channel setting for an existing wireless

network or to customize the wireless network. If you enable Auto Channel Scan, this option will be greyed out.

Select the transmit rate. It is strongly suggested to select Best (Auto) for best performance.

Select the Channel Width:

Auto 20/40

- This is the default setting. Select if you are using both 802.11n and non-802.11n wireless devices.

20MHz

- Select if you are not using any 802.11n wireless clients.

Select Invisible if you do not want the SSID of your wireless network to be broadcasted by the DIR-857. If Invisible is selected, the SSID of the DIR-857 will not

be seen by Site Survey utilities so your wireless clients will have to know the SSID of your DIR-857 in order to connect to it.

Refer to page 85 for more information regarding wireless security.

Enable Wireless:

Schedule:

Wireless

Network Name:

802.11 Mode:

Enable Auto

Channel Scan:

Wireless

Channel:

Transmission

Rate:

Channel Width:

Visibility Status:

Wireless Security:

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Check the box to enable the wireless function. If you do not want to use wireless, uncheck

the box to disable all the wireless functions.

Select the time frame that you would like your wireless network enabled. The schedule

may be set to Always. Any schedule you create will be available in the drop-down menu.

Click

Add New

to create a new schedule.

Service Set Identifier (SSID) is the name of your wireless network. Create a name using

up to 32 characters. The SSID is case-sensitive.

Select one of the following:

802.11a Only

- Select if all of your wireless clients are 802.11a.

Mixed 802.11n and 802.11a

- Select if you are using both 802.11n and 802.11a wireless

clients.

802.11n Only

- Select only if all of your wireless clients are 802.11n.

The Auto Channel Scan setting can be selected to allow the DIR-857 to choose the channel with the least amount of interference.

Indicates the channel setting for the DIR-857. By default the channels set to 6. The Channel can be changed to fit the channel setting for an existing wireless

network or to customize the wireless network. If

you enable

Auto Channel Scan

, this option will be greyed out.

Select the transmit rate. It is strongly suggested to select Best (Auto)

for best performance.

Select the Channel Width:

Auto 20/40

- This is the default setting. Select if you are using both 802.11n and non-802.11n wireless devices.

20MHz

- Select if you are not using any 802.11n wireless clients.

Select Invisible if you do not want the SSID of your wireless network to be broadcasted by the DIR-857. If Invisible is selected, the SSID of the DIR-857 will not

be seen by Site Survey utilities so your wireless clients will have to know the SSID of your DIR-857 in order to connect to it.

Refer to page 85 for more information regarding wireless security.

Enable Wireless:

Schedule:

Wireless

Network Name:

802.11 Mode:

Enable Auto

Channel Scan:

Wireless

Channel:

Transmission

Rate:

Channel Width:

Visibility Status:

Wireless Security:

802.11n/g (5GHz)

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This section will allow you to change the local network settings of the router and to configure the DHCP settings.

Network Settings

Enter the IP address of the router. The default IP address is 192.168.0.1.

If you change the IP address, once you click

Apply

, you will need to enter the new IP

address in your browser to get back into the configuration utility.

Enter the Subnet Mask. The default subnet mask is 255.255.255.0.

Enter the Domain name (Optional).

Uncheck the box to transfer the DNS server information from your ISP to your

computers. If checked, your computers will use the router for a DNS server.

IP Address:

Subnet Mask:

Local Domain:

Enable DNS Relay:

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DHCP Server Settings

DHCP stands for Dynamic Host Control Protocol. The DIR-857 has a built-in DHCP server. The DHCP Server will automatically assign an IP address

to the computers on the LAN/private network. Be sure to set your computers to be DHCP clients by setting their TCP/IP settings to “Obtain an IP

Address Automatically.” When you turn your computers on, they will automatically load the proper TCP/IP settings provided by the DIR-857. The

DHCP Server will automatically allocate an unused IP address from the IP address pool to the requesting computer. You must specify the starting

and ending address of the IP address pool.

Check this box to enable the DHCP server on your router. Uncheck to disable this function.

Enter the starting and ending IP addresses for the DHCP server’s IP assignment.

Note:

If you statically (manually) assign IP addresses to your computers or devices, make sure

the IP addresses are outside of this range or you may have an IP conflict.

The length of time for the IP address lease. Enter the Lease time in minutes.

Enable this feature to broadcast your networks DHCP server to LAN/WLAN clients.

NetBIOS allows LAN hosts to discover all other computers within the network, enable this

feature to allow the DHCP Server to offer NetBIOS configuration settings.

Enable this feature to allow WINS information to be learned from the WAN side, disable to allow manual configuration.

This feature allows the configuration of a NetBIOS ‘domain’ name under which network hosts operates. This setting has no effect if the ‘Learn NetBIOS information

from WAN’ is activated.”

Select the different type of NetBIOS node:

Broadcast only

,

Point-to-Point

,

Mixed-mode

, and

Hybrid

.

Enter your Primary (and Secondary) WINS IP address(es).

Enable DHCP

Server:

DHCP IP Address

Range:

DHCP Lease Time:

Always Broadcast:

NetBIOS

Announcement:

Learn NetBIOS

from WAN:

NetBIOS Scope:

NetBIOS Mode

Type:

Primary/Secondary

WINS IP Address: